James works in a flower shop. He will put 36 tulips in vases for a wedding. He must use the same number of tulips in each vase. The number of tulips in each vase must be greater than 1 and less than 10. How many tulips could be in each vase?

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SEric
Mar 2, 2018

6? There isn't a defined number of vases, but assuming the number of vases and tulips are the same, it comes out to 6 tulips per vase.

Explanation:

Taking a look at the given information, you end up with this equation.

#36 = a(b)#

Which doesn't really give you anything. I assume you mean that there are the same number of vases as number of tulips per vase as a result, giving this equation.

#36 = a^2#

#sqrt36 = sqrt(a^2)#

#a = 6#

a = number of tulips per vase.

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